Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement with Salt Satyagraha in 1930. People from all over India participated actively during the movement. Soon after stories about Government repression started to emerge from the northwestern province of India. In 1932 people of Moradabad got together and protested against the brutality of colonial rule.
Before that, the people of the northwestern province had also actively participated in the nationalist movement against British rule. Especially, during the Civil-disobedience movement, the nationalist demonstrations by the people of this region reached their zenith. Therefore, the British contingent resorted to several repressive measures to subdue the uprising of the natives. Hundreds of people were sent to jail for their participation in the movement from the northwestern province alone. It was under such circumstances that a protest was organized by the people of Moradabad. The protest marked the anger of the Indians against the wrongful detention of the natives and the repressive policies of the British regime.
The observance of protests and meetings in Moradabad instilled a renewed sense of revolutionary enthusiasm in the head and hearts of the Indian freedom fighters.
Source: Indian Culture Portal